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Since we seem to be assuming an other than on-on-one contest, I'd still put my money on the Japanese: they not only had their own standoff weapons - the Yumi long bow and the Naginata, but their forces were well-trained and showed up in huge numbers. Kind of like the Germanic tribes, but much better led, trained and armed.

That, and since the Japanese were absolutely unafraid to die, they would have been unlikely to have been intimidated by the Roman's tactics.

Japan for the score.

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Romans had scorpios and trebuchets- artillary.

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"Since we seem to be assuming an other than on-on-one contest"

The gladius wasn't developed as a dueling weapon. It was used as part of a system, which included disciplined units fighting behind 3ft shields. And it worked for centuries against Gallic and Germanic tribes swinging much longer swords.

The Japanese were absolutely unafraid afraid to die in WW 2, so we accommodated them. Romans fought and destroyed lots of people who were unafraid to die.